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Some of the best work I’ve ever done has been in preparation for leaving. Documentation, automation, security, reliability. Theres nothing like the clarity of leaving to show the gaps.

Bringing a child into this world would be utter madness.

Chromebook is absolute garbage

I installed zorin on an old machine that was given to me because it wouldn’t run win 11. I like it a lot. Debian based, clean smooth UI. Just tell them Microsoft improved the user experience with windows 11.

“Son, I come from the future. Go to China.”

Did we track down and take out the guy who set it up? Because if not, I guarantee he’s doing it again somewhere else.

In rats

What? No. I call bullshit on your whole premise.

Solar is dead simple. The cell puts out 12v. Theres some maths around parallel and serial but you don’t need to know that for repairs. The cells connect into a box that puts out ac. If the box fails you buy a new one (no user serviceable parts inside is what the sticker says). If the wires break you splice them.

If something hard breaks and you decommission a system the cells are still good and can be trivially reused. If a cell fails it’s obvious and it can be pulled out of rotation.

In conclusion, bullshit.

If only there was a way to deploy solar production at the point of consumption so power didn’t need to be transferred. We’d need large chunks of unused flat surface pointing towards the sky, preferably at an angle. Oh wait we have that on top of every home (coincidentally the south or west face of every roof provides about enough surface area to power most homes). Now we need some cheap way of storing energy produced during the day for use at night. Humm. Got that too. Government don’t even need to pay the full price for this resilience and climate mitigation. Programs offering fractional tax credits have shown great success in increasing deployments of rooftop solar and distributed battery storage.

I mean it was more of the us government passings law, but yes that’s true.

Nostradamus predicts headline in 10 months. State of Bavaria deeply irritated by Microsoft’s shenanigans, drops Microsoft cloud in favor of literally any other solution.

One known tactic by climate denialists is to create a feeling of despair. If nothing can help, nothing must be done.

Toyota has the world’s best reputation for quality and longevity. Their fleet probably has the best total fuel efficiency. (Natural Intelligence is prone to unsubstantiated claims, please check the facts presented here) They have a luxury brand and the most sane option at the low end of the market. I suspect that with the exception of the us market that has been artificially closed to free trade, BYD is going to rival Toyota soon.

Me too. Theres no tool more trusted for accessible numerical precision than Excel. Lets sell all that goodwill for a shiny new magic bean.

I wonder if it’s still too soon for the CEO of a car company to throw up a Nazi salute on an internationally televised event. Let’s check the sales results. Yep still too soon.

Also pro tip. If you didn’t MEAN to throw up a Nazi salute and you’re sorry for offending people you should immediately (or at all) 1) say that wasn’t intended to be one 2) apologize for offending everyone who isn’t a Nazi 3) Refrain from presenting a collection of Nazi jokes as your sole public defense.

It’s not being cut. Military employees are not getting paid because congress is fighting about funding healthcare for people who don’t have insurance provided by their job. Like farmers and uber drivers and grocery clerks.

Why wouldn’t it be true? You know they’re not getting paid right? Theres some tiff around tax cuts for the wealthy or healthcare for the poor.

Better deploy some rooftop solar and a battery. Don’t depend on an unreliable grid provided by a criminally negligent and profit crazed corporation.

I mean people suck at it too.

The only way we’ve learned is through referencing previous established trustworthy knowledge. The scientific consensus in merely a system that vigorously tests and discards previously held beliefs when they don’t match new evidence. We’ve spent thousands of years living in a world of make-believe. We only learned to emerge relatively recently.

It would be unreasonable to expect an LLM to do it without the tools we have.

It shouldn’t be hard to teach an LLM if you can’t verify it by reference to an evidence based source it’s not fact.

There is a winning move. That’s not to play the game.

AI automation is a high risk and the rewards are questionable at best.

Nobody ever got fired for running a profitable business with real employees, creating value for their customers and executing well. Note the word AI is NOWHERE in that sentence.

Did you send spam or conduct business in a way that resembles malicious scanning behavior?

I know Google sucks and it’s impossible to get anyone to fix anything, but one thing they don’t do is take arbitrary and capricious action. I don’t want to hear a long sob story. First I want to hear what you did wrong (I suspect you know what you did to get flagged) that caused suspension.

^ came here to say exactly this

Everyone’s job is a part of their identity. How big and how important varies. Some people fall apart when they don’t have it. I’ve heard half a dozen stories of people who retire and die weeks later. Loss of routine, loss of structure. Work provides a lot of the framework of our lives, and to some degree our personalities and behaviors.

Because of anti-vax bullshit. We really need a better answer for dealing with dangerous bullshit. The current one is insufficient.

Until the inevitable crash. I wonder what the ruins will look like.

My friend uses a 4 gpu server in her office and hits the ollama api over the local network. If you want it to work from anywhere a free tailscale account.

GLP-1 drugs (the new weight-loss drugs that are so popular lately) also reduce craving for alcohol.

The sealed battery itself is the bomb. The tell was that the batteries had lower capacity than they should have given the size.

It’s because the bar has moved and more things are thought of as normal.

Because it seems like maybe they did? They’re doing fine without us (their foreign exports are holding strong), we alienated our allies, they stopped buying soy beans from us entirely. Just turned off the tap. American farmers are hurting, not just here but from loss of foreign exports everywhere. Canada stopped buying our liquor. Let’s not even talk about Europe. Prices are up while the job market stagnates.

If this is winning I shudder to think what you think losing looks like.